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Study Guide 12
Keep in mind the following questions while reading:
What is more important to the success of a computer company: Good technology? Good management?
What does the development of the micro computer industry suggest about the tension between entrepreneurship and management?
Are computers business tools or entertainment devices?
Is there a link between innovation and management in American business?
Was there a single most important business/technology development in the twentieth century?
Are there any links between the imagination and/or entertainment and business/technology that are relevant to this course? What are they? Why are they relevant? How are they relevant?
Does technology determine the shape of society?
Is technology a hallmark of modernity? If so, is it anti-modern to be dubious of technologies benefits?
Can progress be planned if technology has unexpected outcomes?
Is E-commerce a revolution or evolution?
Is E-commerce still relevant?
What are the issues of intellectual property that are relevant to E-commerce and the Web? Why are they relevant?
How does the US Technology,
Education, And Copyright Harmonization Act Of 2001 (see below) effect the
issue of intellectual property? How well did it foresee the development of E-Commerce and/or
education?
THE
TECHNOLOGY, EDUCATION, AND COPYRIGHT HARMONIZATION ACT OF 2001
U.S. House. Committee on the Judiciary. Subcommittee on Courts, the Internet
and Intellectual Property, June 27, 2001.
http://www.house.gov/judiciary/73473.pdf see also
http://www.house.gov/judiciary/4.htm
Additional Reading:
Tim Berners-Lee, James Hendler and Ora Lassila, "The Semantic
Web," Scientific American, May 2001. Web
Version
Broadhurst Dixon, Joan, and Eric J. Cassidy, eds. Virtual Futures:
Cyberotics, Technology and the Post-Human. London: Routledge, 1998.
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Cetron, Marvin. and Owen Davies. Probable Tomorrows: How Science
And Technology Will Transform Our Lives In The Next Twenty Years. New
York: St. Martin's Press, 1997.Chapter Two. NUS
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Freiberger, Paul, and Michael Swaine. Fire in the Valley: the Making
of the Personal Computer. New York, N.Y.: McGraw-Hill, 2000. NUS
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Hansell, Saul. "For Amazon, a Holiday Risk:
Can It Sell Acres of Everything?" New York Times (November
28, 1999). Online
link
Kaufman, Leslie. "Amazon to Remake Itself Into a Bazaar on the Internet,"
New
York Times (September 30, 1999). Online
link
Jeff Madrick, "Will the Market Crash?" New York Review of Books
(August 10, 2000): pp. 38-41.
Web
version
New York Times. Special Section.
Online
Link
Paton, Jamie. "CNET to Acquire Ziff-Davis," New York Times (July
19, 2000), Web
edition
Saunders, Rebecca. Business the Amazon.Com Way: Secrets of the World's
Most Astonishing Web Business: Capstone Ltd, 1999. NUS
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Marcia S. Smith, Richard M. Nunno, John D. Moteff, and Lennard G. Kruger,
"Internet: An Overview of Key Technology Policy Issues Affecting its Use
and Growth," Department of State International Information Programs, February
16, 2000. http://usinfo.state.gov/usa/infousa/tech/reports/98-67.pdf
David Stauffer. D2D: Dinosaur to Dynamo: How 20 Established Companies are
Winning in the New Economy. Oxford: Capstone Publishing
Limited, 2001.
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Peter Weill, Michael R. Vitale eds, Place to Space: Migrating to
Ebusiness Models. Boston, Mass.: Harvard Business School Press, 2001. NUS
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